As the news of your spring wedding
Down into my ears trickled
I longed and hoped
I asked for just one chance;
One chance to look into your beautiful bold eyes
To stare deep and not break the gaze
With hands intertwined and say
I am in love with you.
One chance to reminisce
Years spent in each other’s embrace
To gather in a time-glass our precious moments
And store for our unborn children a great love story
With our back on the ground and face to the stars
To grow old together and be buried side by side.
One chance for you to step into the birth-room
And help unfurl our angels
To share our sorrows and joys alike
To smile in triumph over the fights we overcame to be together.
And be assured that together we will win the future.
One chance to wake up from this dream
And not hear of your precious bride
To cherish the possibility
That together we will always be
To say I’ll always love you.
One chance to realize that it’s not too late
To wish all the sadness away
And all the tears cease.
To meet our parents and their blessings obtain
One last chance to say “till death do us part”
By
Haddasah
PS: I wrote these lines on your wedding eve
PPS: I realize I can never love you as much as you deserve hence like a bird not designed not be caged, I am glad I let you fly.
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-Chisom
Nice one there…
Nice two there! 😉
Aw! What a sweet misery, bittersweet; drew tears from my eyes!
Perfect lines Hadassah, once one’s able to get past the gloom and sadness this ‘monsterpiece’ oozes of! These greatly seduces and the grisly picture you painted here, is commonplace with a handful of people, who can truly relate with it! You did terrific with this, it stings too much!
I read the footnote and I wondered if the Narrator woulda made good this one chance, if it was availed her! What’s mine, really, really mine; will not pass me by! And if this was meant to be, it’d have been, especially seeing as certain doubts are being nursed, as it applies to not loving the other enough, as it oughta be! Maybe, just maybe; it was for the best!
Thanks for sharing Chisom and many congrats on moving house! I wish you God’s best as you chart a new course and I hope you find fulfillment amidst having lotsa fun, as you soldier on!
As is usual with you, Yem-yem, you leave me with so much to say but too little know-how of precise expression. Thank you, dearie … we aim to please 🙂
Maybe it was for the best Yemie.
Just maybe. Thank you for your kind words
Ah look who showed up! Haddasah! Great piece of work there … did I say that already? 😉
Hadassah!!!
*lovingitis*
Not sure if it’s the name or the piece you love more, Debby … but so far say na love, we’ll take it 🙂
Thank you!
When u meet someone and it feels perfect for u, you can see a future together, den d person falls for someone else n u r like “how is dis even possible!?”. And then there are the “what ifs” you have to be tormented with. Some ppl have it rougher than others
This let’s us into the vulnerability and truth of really falling for someone, a place I don’t want to be. Well done Hadassah!
Another macho guy living the ‘never-gon-fall-no-not-me’ script.loool. I wish you luck with that, Uncle Phil
Chisom, I don’t mean that I won’t fall, I just wish dat I won’t find myself in this situation, its “a place I don’t want to be”. I feel vulnerabilty is one of the appealing things about love, being “naked and not ashamed”. You sorta feel crappy after you go ahead and strip down before someone who would only inspect you n walk away, lol
Crappy? That’s an understatement, man. DEAD is what you feel if someone ever does that to you.lol.
I get your point now, bro. Thanks.